Troubles with new shuffle

I just got my girlfriend an Ipod Shuffle for Christmas, and I'm having nothing but headaches trying to get it to work. Once I finally got Itunes to recognize it, I copied some songs over...which Itunes seemed to think went just fine. When I'd take it out of the computer and try to use it, nothing but green and yellow blinking lights. I put it back on the dock, and it shows up in Itunes with it's songs and all...just nothing works.
I'm using the Itunes that came with it (6), and I've reinstalled Itunes, I've restored the ipod, I've done it all. Also, the Ipod says it has like 150gb free....and it's only 1gb. Any ideas?

Hmm. I might have figured this out...kinda. When I plugged in the ipod, it was giving it a drive letter that was already used. For some reason then, the ipod updated was looking at my secondary hard drive, hence the 150gb. After changing the drive letter in windows, and running the updater a few thousand times and beating my head on every hard surface in the house....it seems to work, at least for now.
Who started the whole "apple is user friendly" BS? I'm just not seeing it.
Thanks for the help guys, hope everything is working out for you.

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